James van B®️egt
@causticcorner.bsky.social
Syncretic, cynic, dysthymic, pedantic, heretic, antinatalist, Anglo-Dutch. Loves cats, hates autocracy, hypocrisy, monarchy, religion, and poor grammar.
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Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘An outstanding exposé of Putin and his criminal pals … [A] long-awaited, must read book’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Books about modern Russia abound … Belton has surpassed them all. Her ...
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If you want to understand Trump's stance on Russia, just read this excellent book. Catherine Belton spells out how Moscow has owned him for decades; Trump didn't sue, because there are receipts. Published by Murdoch's Harper Collins, note. harpercollins.co.uk/products/put...
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Chaos on TwitterX as they roll out a new change which shows the location of the user and inadvertently reveal how many fake accounts there are and how much foreign interference.
Earlier a vocal Scottish independence campaigner was outed as an Iranian account. Then there’s this pro Trump one:
Earlier a vocal Scottish independence campaigner was outed as an Iranian account. Then there’s this pro Trump one:
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Chaos on TwitterX as they roll out a new change which shows the location of the user and inadvertently reveal how many fake accounts there are and how much foreign interference.
Earlier a vocal Scottish independence campaigner was outed as an Iranian account. Then there’s this pro Trump one:
Earlier a vocal Scottish independence campaigner was outed as an Iranian account. Then there’s this pro Trump one:
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Incredible not just that this happened, but that it’s not even a second or third tier news story, let alone something Farage will actually be held accountable for. Doesn’t make the top 15 stories on either the BBC or the Guardian! Filed under “Wales”.
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Incredible not just that this happened, but that it’s not even a second or third tier news story, let alone something Farage will actually be held accountable for. Doesn’t make the top 15 stories on either the BBC or the Guardian! Filed under “Wales”.
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What Musk has done to Grok is unintentionally hilarious...
Or maybe intentionally. Who knows...?
Musk the world's strongest, fittest and fastest human 🤣
Or maybe intentionally. Who knows...?
Musk the world's strongest, fittest and fastest human 🤣
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
What Musk has done to Grok is unintentionally hilarious...
Or maybe intentionally. Who knows...?
Musk the world's strongest, fittest and fastest human 🤣
Or maybe intentionally. Who knows...?
Musk the world's strongest, fittest and fastest human 🤣
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Russians are using the main comrade measuring device again.
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Russians are using the main comrade measuring device again.
Looking forward to watching this, on repeat 🤯
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Looking forward to watching this, on repeat 🤯
According to NME magazine, Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim) is a contest on Celebrity #TheTraitors
This writing is AI slop, presumably. Please fucking stop it.
www.nme.com/news/tv/alan...
This writing is AI slop, presumably. Please fucking stop it.
www.nme.com/news/tv/alan...
October 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
According to NME magazine, Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim) is a contest on Celebrity #TheTraitors
This writing is AI slop, presumably. Please fucking stop it.
www.nme.com/news/tv/alan...
This writing is AI slop, presumably. Please fucking stop it.
www.nme.com/news/tv/alan...
What fresh hell is this?? Watching Down Cemetery Road (Apple TV+), there's one character on screen smoking a cigar and up pops a fkn cancer warning! What's next, 'alcohol causes heart disease'? Eating fries causes obesity?
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What fresh hell is this?? Watching Down Cemetery Road (Apple TV+), there's one character on screen smoking a cigar and up pops a fkn cancer warning! What's next, 'alcohol causes heart disease'? Eating fries causes obesity?
This man is as thick as mince.
Look at Jared when Witkoff admits “they’ve been working on the [Gaza] “masterplan” for 2 years”
October 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This man is as thick as mince.
Hey MAGA people, this is on YOU! The post-American order. Your best days are behind you, fools.
www.ft.com/content/4bc7...
www.ft.com/content/4bc7...
Singapore’s prime minister warns of ‘messy’ transition to post-American order
Lawrence Wong says no other country can fill vacuum left by US
www.ft.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Hey MAGA people, this is on YOU! The post-American order. Your best days are behind you, fools.
www.ft.com/content/4bc7...
www.ft.com/content/4bc7...
Keep getting vaccinated, folks #science
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment – new research
theconversation.com/covid-19-mrn...
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment – new research
theconversation.com/covid-19-mrn...
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment – new research
The researchers found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines could potentially help patients whose tumors don’t respond well to traditional immunotherapy.
theconversation.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Keep getting vaccinated, folks #science
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment – new research
theconversation.com/covid-19-mrn...
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment – new research
theconversation.com/covid-19-mrn...
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I remember asking my daughter what she learned in school that day. She said gay men liked Sony. Lesbians prefer Bose. Transgender ppl prefer Yamaha.
With tears in my eyes I knelt down and said to her, "fuck sake girl, they're just stereo types"
With tears in my eyes I knelt down and said to her, "fuck sake girl, they're just stereo types"
October 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I remember asking my daughter what she learned in school that day. She said gay men liked Sony. Lesbians prefer Bose. Transgender ppl prefer Yamaha.
With tears in my eyes I knelt down and said to her, "fuck sake girl, they're just stereo types"
With tears in my eyes I knelt down and said to her, "fuck sake girl, they're just stereo types"
May as well knock the whole thing down. Bye USA, was great knowin' ya. 250 and out.
JUST IN: The Trump administration has begun DEMOLISHING portions of the East Wing of the White House to build Trump’s $250 million ballroom — despite earlier claiming it wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing White House structure. (Washington Post)
October 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
May as well knock the whole thing down. Bye USA, was great knowin' ya. 250 and out.
Best sign I've seen, from #NoKingsDay
October 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Best sign I've seen, from #NoKingsDay
Can we please now move past this nonsense (nonceness?) about the concept of 'royalty'? That members of one family somehow have higher status than others? Their ancestors were robber barons who entitled themselves. The idea of nobility belongs in the dustbin of history.
The Andrew formerly known as Prince
Prince Andrew gives up royal titles including Duke of York after 'discussion with King'
In a statement, the prince says:
www.bbc.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Can we please now move past this nonsense (nonceness?) about the concept of 'royalty'? That members of one family somehow have higher status than others? Their ancestors were robber barons who entitled themselves. The idea of nobility belongs in the dustbin of history.
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open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... The peerless Paul Krugman with the truth about the crypto industry - “one of the prime beneficiaries from a new regime of crony capitalism, in which an industry’s success depends on its ability and willingness to bribe the right people.”
How Crypto Became a Trump Trade
It’s primarily a vehicle for crony capitalism now
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... The peerless Paul Krugman with the truth about the crypto industry - “one of the prime beneficiaries from a new regime of crony capitalism, in which an industry’s success depends on its ability and willingness to bribe the right people.”
Mashed potato - it's the texture
Who Framed Roger Rabbit - only movie I've ever left halfway through
Wind Beneath My Wings (Bette Midler) - has me reaching for the dial instantanously
Who Framed Roger Rabbit - only movie I've ever left halfway through
Wind Beneath My Wings (Bette Midler) - has me reaching for the dial instantanously
“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”
Cauliflower -I've become more tolerant of other breeds of brassica, but no.
Come and See - for obvs reasons.
Crass -Reality Asylum (from the Rough Trade 25 years comp CDs)
Cauliflower -I've become more tolerant of other breeds of brassica, but no.
Come and See - for obvs reasons.
Crass -Reality Asylum (from the Rough Trade 25 years comp CDs)
Introduce yourself using a food you refuse to eat, a film you’ll never watch again, a song you can’t stand
Courgette - cannot stomach the texture, like eating rotten cucumber
Is Threads a film?
“Clint Eastwood” - to you the flimsy Steve tweet is a funny joke, to me it’s a war crime indictment
Courgette - cannot stomach the texture, like eating rotten cucumber
Is Threads a film?
“Clint Eastwood” - to you the flimsy Steve tweet is a funny joke, to me it’s a war crime indictment
October 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Mashed potato - it's the texture
Who Framed Roger Rabbit - only movie I've ever left halfway through
Wind Beneath My Wings (Bette Midler) - has me reaching for the dial instantanously
Who Framed Roger Rabbit - only movie I've ever left halfway through
Wind Beneath My Wings (Bette Midler) - has me reaching for the dial instantanously
Love it, a massive 'Fuck You' to the screaming orange manbaby in the White House.
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
October 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Love it, a massive 'Fuck You' to the screaming orange manbaby in the White House.
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Alan Carr is Linda at an 11 #CelebrityTraitors
October 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Alan Carr is Linda at an 11 #CelebrityTraitors
Hey USA, here's what you could have won...
"...these MFers are crazy"
"...these MFers are crazy"
October 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Hey USA, here's what you could have won...
"...these MFers are crazy"
"...these MFers are crazy"
Watching BBC News at Six. First the Manchester synagogue attack, then the new Archbishop of Canterbury, then Israel/Gaza. All idiotic, dogmatic religion, based on crazy ancient fairytales. Oh, and now the Green Party deputy leader and his anti-semitic social media posts. WTF is wrong with humanity?
October 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Watching BBC News at Six. First the Manchester synagogue attack, then the new Archbishop of Canterbury, then Israel/Gaza. All idiotic, dogmatic religion, based on crazy ancient fairytales. Oh, and now the Green Party deputy leader and his anti-semitic social media posts. WTF is wrong with humanity?
Religion, a plague on the human race for millennia, all based on fables and myths that never happened. WTF are we doing still talking about and wrapping religion in the 21st century? 😡
October 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Religion, a plague on the human race for millennia, all based on fables and myths that never happened. WTF are we doing still talking about and wrapping religion in the 21st century? 😡
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In the 80/90s I was a metals trader on the LME, with one Nigel Farage. He was a gobby tosspot, a figure of fun not to be taken seriously.
The very first thing he said to me when introduced was an insult about the Dutch in WWII. He may be racist, probably a xenophobe, but definitely a cunt.
The very first thing he said to me when introduced was an insult about the Dutch in WWII. He may be racist, probably a xenophobe, but definitely a cunt.
October 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
In the 80/90s I was a metals trader on the LME, with one Nigel Farage. He was a gobby tosspot, a figure of fun not to be taken seriously.
The very first thing he said to me when introduced was an insult about the Dutch in WWII. He may be racist, probably a xenophobe, but definitely a cunt.
The very first thing he said to me when introduced was an insult about the Dutch in WWII. He may be racist, probably a xenophobe, but definitely a cunt.
The Saudis sponsored 9/11 and the FBI made the British release a key suspect. Notably, the story is from Murdoch's Sunday Times.
Meanwhile, Pete Davidson's father was killed in 9/11, by the Saudi goverment. How funny, right?
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Meanwhile, Pete Davidson's father was killed in 9/11, by the Saudi goverment. How funny, right?
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
INVESTIGATION: The 9/11 suspect - part 1
Was there another man involved in plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed thousands in 2001? And why did British police, acting on the instructions of American law enforcement, let him go?This...
shorturl.at
October 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The Saudis sponsored 9/11 and the FBI made the British release a key suspect. Notably, the story is from Murdoch's Sunday Times.
Meanwhile, Pete Davidson's father was killed in 9/11, by the Saudi goverment. How funny, right?
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Meanwhile, Pete Davidson's father was killed in 9/11, by the Saudi goverment. How funny, right?
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Who wants to see a video of Nigel Farage calling Nathan Gill a “decent, honourable man”?
September 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reasons to be cheerful 🙂
Russia's Billionaires Are Losing the Global Wealth Race
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/29/r...
Russia's Billionaires Are Losing the Global Wealth Race
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/29/r...
Russia's Billionaires Are Losing the Global Wealth Race - The Moscow Times
Opinion | However abstract market capitalization may be, and however far it may diverge from companies’ real assets, stock market trends still shape the fortunes of the world’s wealthiest people.
www.themoscowtimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Reasons to be cheerful 🙂
Russia's Billionaires Are Losing the Global Wealth Race
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/29/r...
Russia's Billionaires Are Losing the Global Wealth Race
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/29/r...